HYANNIS, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — September 19, 2011 —
Pitney Bowes Business Insight, a global leader in customer data,
analytics and communication software and services, today announced that
law enforcement in major cities, including the London Metropolitan
Police Service, are using the MapInfo® Crime Profiler™ solution for
crime and incident mapping and analysis.

MapInfo Crime Profiler enables police departments to visualize crime
patterns, including series, type, time, locale or other characteristics,
in order to help them deploy resources in a more effective manner. The
solution also assists detectives in identifying and apprehending
suspects; and plays a role in monitoring operations and formulating
crime prevention strategies.

In addition to effective crime analysis, MapInfo Crime Profiler also
reveals fraud patterns clustered around specific locations such as
residences, non-existent business addresses, altered ATMs and others.
MapInfo Crime Profiler is being used by the British Transport Police to
help reduce cable theft across the British rail network, a top priority
for the force and second only to the terrorist threat.

“We are using MapInfo Crime Profiler to map and analyze those hotspots
where cable theft is most prevalent,” said, Charlotte Crabtree, Force
Principal Analyst at the British Transport Police. “The mapping tools
pull together a number of datasets to help us identify, for example, the
nearest scrap dealers so that we can direct intelligence checks as soon
as a crime occurs and dealers’ books can be immediately inspected by
police officers to identify likely perpetrators.”

“The analysis of persistent crime problems has been used by many law
enforcement agencies to help identify, target and prioritize suitable
areas for crime prevention initiatives,” said Ian Broadbent, Principal
Product Manager Global Public Safety Solutions at Pitney Bowes Business
Insight. “With money tighter than ever for many police forces,
sophisticated and user-friendly technology is imperative to help them
deploy their resources to the fullest effect.”

MapInfo Crime Profiler features highly visual, interactive charting and
graphing capabilities with sophisticated time-based analysis. Proximity
analysis of crimes to known offenders or geographical risk factors helps
law enforcement officers identify suspects rapidly. The software also
makes it easier for crime analysts to identify crime patterns and
determine how best to address them.

Interactive hotspot map creation allows analysts to instantly show how
different settings change the representation of the data. Law
enforcement officials can examine a variety of real-time “what if”
scenarios by layering aerial photography, street maps, demographics,
segmentation maps and more. The insight gained from this level of visual
intelligence is powerful for criminal apprehension, creating effective
crime prevention strategies and for resource deployment.

For more information and to get started with MapInfo Crime Profiler,
please contact the Pitney Bowes Business Insight sales team at
800-327-8627, or
Email Contact.

About Pitney Bowes Business Insight

Pitney Bowes Business Insight is a software and services company that
provides solutions to help organizations acquire, serve and grow
relationships with customers and citizens. These solutions enable
lifetime customer relationships by integrating data management, location
intelligence, sophisticated predictive analytics, rules-based decision
making and cross-channel customer interaction management to increase the
value of every customer communication while also delivering operational
efficiencies.